West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-04-14


VINO Shps INTO your store and takes a yard OF
Slolh IRON your counter, viii become Tie
hlghWaYm0n OF tho forest, or tho burglar at
midnight, picking the lock OF your money safe
and blowing up the store 10 hide the viliRiny
"A great army, with Staggering stap and
o'oOdshot eye, and drunken hoot, they
are coming on-gatherng recruits from
every gtUS shop and den OF iutnmy kn the
lahu, 10 take the ballot box and hurTan at tha
elections The hard-knuCkled fist OF rutlian.
lSlh VIII nave moro power than the gentle
hand OF Intelligence and souriety. Mem
oloatei, and with the signature OF sin
burned IN from tho top Cf tine forohent
20 the bottom OF the Cnin viii look hOli.
esl men out OF COuntenance Moral corps.,s
which ought TO be buried hundred f,S,t deep
70 keep them from poisoning the air, will rot
IN The face OF tine sun at aoonday Industry
IN her plain frock will bo unnppreciatei
Whhe thousands OF men will w0nuor IN idle.
ness, with their hands ON their hips, saving.
~ The world owes US "a living ., what "A tr,,
mcndouS power there Is in iniQuity when nm.
educated, and unrcstrained, and unblanchpd
a. BoeS ON concentrating and deepening and
widening, and gathering momentum until NJ
swings ahead with very triumph of dcsola.
hon, drowning like surgcs, scorching hEe
DANES, crushing like rocks W hat arc Won
going to do with this abandoned pcpuiniion
81 the streets VIII you gather them m Your
Churchesf Its not tho will OF Your Heavenly
Father that one OF these little ones
should perish. III you have ten respectable
children ln .ur class gather in ten that nre
not respectable. II IN your Bible class thore
be twenty young men who have come from
Christian homes and elegant SURROUNDINGS
let those twenty young men GO out and
gather in twenty more of the young men of
the city who are lost 10 God and lost To 40.
cicty. This outside population, unless cd
Gated and restrained, will work ter
lor IN ages that arc 10 come
Years ago at New Orleans when the cho,cro
was raging fearfully, steamboat put out inst
before nightfall, crowded with PASSENGERS
who were trying 90 escape from the
pcstlencc. After the boat had been ont a
httlo while tho engineer fell with tho cholera
he captain, in consideration, went
down among the passengers aud asked.
Is there any one here who knows
anything about engineering Swnrthy
nWn replied; II am an engineer "Welln
SAID the Captain, 81 would bo very
glad N you would take charge Of this boat
4 lac man went % the engine The steamer
moved more rapidly, until, after awhile, tho
captain and somo passenger were alarmed.
ana they went 20 soc what was the mat
ter and they found that this was "A maniac
engineer, and that he was pccping
down the safcty-valvc: and as they
came 10 him, lac said "I ann commissioned OF
Satan 10 drive this steamer 20 help and he
hourished his pistol end would NOS com,
down. But after awhile, through some
Btratagem, no was brought from his Io.it .pu
and the lives of THO pa srngcIs were saved
q, my friendsl TINT steamer had uo such
peril as our institutions nrr threat.
oncd with, II tho ignorant and
unrestrained children uf TN, land shall
come up IN their ignorance and their ,fiul.
20 engineer our civil nid religious insiitu-
tons, and drive them ON thu rocks Eduput,
TINS abandoned population. or they viii over
thro" tue institutions Of this land Gather
them into your sabbath schools, CON.
gratulate YOU that many have boon
gathered. Go forth teachers. in the
N ~ lao oil
on tho coming Sabbath may there be-
found gathered scores and hundreds of these
wanderers, and instead Of eighteen hundusd
In the Sabbath school, We shall s.s tlro"
thousand or four thousand, aud the grace az
God viii como down upon them. ana the lIOlv
Spirit will bring them all into the truth
Another characteristic Of a live church S.
ono with appropriate architecture IN The
far West and nmid destitute population.
log church is very npprOprint.- T,oD'c
where people live In comfortable ab0dce 70
church uncOmmodious or lacking in leauty !,
q moral nuisance Because Christ was born in
a mangcr rs no reason why WeshOuld worship
Him i'm barn. Let the churches ~ Jesus
Christ be not only comfortable, bi.t ornntc
y ears agO we resolved to have u comfortable
church. We resolved that 10 should be- nmphi
theatrical i'm shape. The prominent nrchi-
tcts or the country, after figuring ON the
matter good while 6uid that such church
would not be churchly, and they would ht.e
nothing 10 do with tho enterprise
But after awhile wc found nu architect will
ing 70 risk his reputation He put up for us
tho first tabernacle la amBhithcatricfI a vie
We liked IT, AN who came HSel H. 'fhis
build n2 followed in the Same style We be.
heyc IT IS appropriate md ndHptod An nm
gular church VIII have an angular Theology
Tho Church Of Jesus Christ ought 20 be- a great
family circle tho pulpit only tho fire placc
around which they are gathered iu sweet and
domestic communion But when our FIRST
tabernacle went up, q tine caricnturp and tho
sroiiing They said. It's "a hippolrOu.o
It's holy cirdus It's 1almHges theatre
But the Lord came down with power up1n
that old building, and made 10 n gat of
heaven 20 great many And this Duildipg
followed That we were right in pcr-i-tiug
lu tho style Of architecture D. proved
by tho fact that now there uro sixty nr
'vcuty churches boa tha United Stutes
iu the same style tniotd our tabernacle Inns
IcyOiutiOnized Church Hrchitonture iu this
country. A live Church must ha.o 70 com
ingdious, a comfortable arr adapted b.ildiug
How amiablo are Thy Tabernacle - Lord
OF HoStsl i would rather De door k,orsr .u
the house Of my God than 60 dwell BOO thc tents
OF wickednessh
Again, the characteristic Ola live church
must DO Tint 10 is a soul snyiny church ~
must be the old GOSPEL Of Christ "Dh say
somo people, the Gospel Of Christ allows boat
q small swing for % mans forultio- and some
mon have left the ministry with that .d.r
One such said tO Rowland Hil'. "i hove
left tho ministry because J don't want "A.
hide my taients any longer" 'Wcll. Dol
piled Rowland Hill ~ think tue more sou
hide your talents the better Whv there frs
no iield ON earth 20 grand as that which Is
open before tie Gospel ministry Have sou
powers " analysis Exhaust them hero Hlyt
you uncynqucrabe logiri 1T lt grauplc with
lulle Ep.stle ~ Che Romans Issr
you strong Imagination let d. dis
course u the iulug OF David. Ui
Johns Apocalypuo Vision Have you grent
power Of p1thoef Exhaust h. .u teIIiuy tho
story Of Saviour iOso Have yOu - bold
dyle OF tbIuking' Thon follow E1etiel's wheel.
tuIl of owes and hear through bis chapters tho
rush of tho wings of tho sornphim All ye
who want O. grand field iu which 10 work Tor
God, come into the Gospel ministry. At
any rate, como into Christian circl o.
and somewhere and somehow declare tho
grnco of God. Pardon FOR an sim Comfort
for OH trouble. Eternal life for an the deal
o. my apui preach 10 for cvor. ft has been
my ambition and believe b. has boeu yours
my dear people. Boo these years of nv
ministry, b. have this o. s0ui-eavinu Church.
nIl $50 mover yot threw out tho Gospel not
but We drew u q great multitude They
h1vo come. "a hundred a. n slime and two
hundred and fifty at p time end i expect
1a day VIII appear whom, in somo service,
there win Dc thros thousand souls acccufiuo
tbe offers OF eternal life i wish Z
could tell you the circumstance
fuat have como under my observation
proving the fact that God has hio7-od tho
prayers Of these people in behalf of souls in.
mortal ] could tell YOU of ono night. when
J stood % the end Of the platform aud grn.
t'cman passed me- h.s check bronzod with tho
sea- and as he went into the inquiry room